Rogue aid? An empirical analysis of China's aid allocation

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Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset (2023, methodology): “empirical approach follows Dreher et al.’s (2016) analysis of how Chinese aid affects economic development at the local level within African countries.”
Tracking Underreported Financial Flows: China’s Development Finance and the Aid–Conflict Nexus Revisited (2017, unknown): “And, while we do not take it up in this article, if Chinese aid comes with fewer strings attached, recipient governments will have even more flexibility in allocating for tenure extension activities, so that one dollar of Chinese aid goes further in reducing conflict than one dollar of Western aid (”
Apples and Dragon Fruits: The Determinants of Aid and Other Forms of State Financing from China to Africa (2018, unknown): “This paper and various efforts to 40 Analyzing aid targeting at the subnational level, Dreher et al. (2015) find that Chinese aid flows disproportionately to the hometowns of African leaders and not necessarily to areas of greatest need within countries.”
Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance (2015, unknown): “More broadly, many Chinese grants and loans are actually trade finance instruments, such as export seller’s credits that help Chinese firms do business in overseas markets and export buyer’s credits that help firms from importing countries to buy goods and services from Chinese firms (Dreher et al. ”